....and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
"Phantom Evidence refers to data or studies that have been discredited, debunked, or retracted, yet continue to be cited as though they were still valid.Revelation 21:8
A. Haeckel’s Embryos
A classic case is Haeckel’s embryos, in which the 19th-century German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) used comparative embryology to advocate for Charles Darwin’s theory of common descent.
Haeckel proposed “The Biogenetic Law”: that an organism’s development from embryo to adult (ontogeny) retraces the evolutionary history of its species (phylogeny).
To manufacture support for this claim, Haeckel doctored his illustrations, exaggerating early-stage similarities across different vertebrate classes.
As shown in the illustration, comparing Haeckel’s original drawings (top row) with actual photographs of vertebrate embryos at corresponding developmental stages (bottom row) reveals the extent of the distortion.
Despite being exposed as inaccurate, these drawings remained a staple of standard biology textbooks for well over a century, and variations of them still surface occasionally today."
Despite being exposed as inaccurate, these drawings remained a staple of standard biology textbooks for well over a century, and variations of them still surface occasionally today."
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